Micro-credentials for Teachers

What are micro-credentials?
Micro-credentials are competency-based professional learning skills that enable educators to personalize and demonstrate their learning through evidence. This learning system is specific, subject-adaptable, research-based, flexible/timely, shareable, transparent and performance-based.

Each micro-credential is developed using a framework to ensure they:

  • Focus on a single competency

  • Are supported by research

  • Require evidence of competence

  • Include a rubric for evaluation

To earn micro-credentials, educators:

  1. Select a micro-credential from the approved CUSD200 micro-credential list and submit a request for pre-approval through the Human Resources Department.

  2. Enroll in the required micro-credentials.

  3. Collect the required evidence as articulated in the micro-credential (e.g. videos, audio, writing samples, samples of student work, reflections form students and/or teachers etc.).

  4. Submit the required evidence through the online platform.

  5. Assessors then review the evidence against the scoring guide and rubric.

If educators successfully demonstrate competence, they receive the micro-credential in the form of a digital badge.

Who is the provider of micro-credentials?
Digital Promise is the approved platform for a majority of the CUSD200 micro-credentials. Click here to access the Digital Promise website. 

NEA Micro-credential Bank has also been approved for the micro-credential platform. Click here to access the NEA Micro-credential Bank website.

What is the micro-credential approval process?
All micro-credentials must be approved before course enrollment to be eligible for salary compensation.

Follow the steps below for the micro-credential process:

  1. Pick a micro-credential from the CUSD 200 approved list.

  2. Complete the Micro-credential Approval Form by requesting it from Sarah Leemans at sarah.leemans@cusd200.org or accessing it on the iVisions Self-Service Portal.

  3. Enroll in your micro-credentials (Digital Promise website, NEA Micro-credential Bank, Sensation Brain).

  4. Complete the micro-credentials.

  5. All badges (certificates of completion) for completed micro-credentials must be received in Human Resources by October 1, 2025, to receive salary compensation. Email badges/certificates to Sarah Leemans at sarah.leemans@cusd200.org and submit completed micro-credentials in the Submission Log available on the iVisions Self-Service Portal.